Prof. Richard Susskind OBE

Session moderated by: Shin Jae Kim, TozziniFreire Advogados and Jan Peeters, Stibbe

Professor Richard Susskind OBE is the world’s most cited author on the future of legal services. He is President of the Society for Computers and Law, Chair of the Advisory Board of the Oxford Internet Institute, the Founder of Remote Courts Worldwide (www.remotecourts.org), and, since 1998, has been Technology Adviser to the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. Richard’s work has been translated into 18 languages and he has been invited to speak in over 60 countries. He has written numerous books, including The Future of the Law (1996), Transforming the Law (2000), The End of Lawyers? (2008), The Future of the Professions (2015, with D Susskind) Tomorrow’s Lawyers (2013, 2017), and Online Courts and the Future of Justice (2019). In the 1980s, he wrote his doctorate on artificial intelligence and the law at Balliol College, Oxford. He holds professorships at Oxford University, UCL, Gresham College, and Strathclyde University.